CRUISE SHIP REVIEWS
Holland America Line’s MS NIEUW AMSTERDAM carries on liner and cruise history of the famed cruise line.
Friday, July 30th, 2010Holland America Line’s MS NIEUW AMSTERDAM carries on liner and cruise history of the famed cruise line.
Launched from Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri’s Marghera shipyard in Venice on July 4, 2010, the 86,000-ton Nieuw Amsterdam celebrates the glamour and history of New York City, formerly called Nieuw Amsterdam, with its inspired interior design and art collection.
Holland [...]
THE FIRST CRUISE SHIP WAS A “PRINCESS”: – The Prinzessin Victoria Luise was the world’s first cruise ship.
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010THE FIRST CRUISE SHIP WAS A “PRINCESS”: – The Prinzessin Victoria Luise was the world’s first cruise ship.
The Prinzessin Victoria Luise was the world’s first cruise ship.
Cruise Ship History and Cruising The Past – The Prinzessin Victoria Luise was the world’s first cruise ship. Built for the Hamburg America Line, she was launched [...]
HISTORY OF THE CUNARD LINE
Friday, May 28th, 2010Social History: History of The Cunard Line
Cunard Line was the only company to continue regular transatlantic ocean crossings by liners after the 1970s. The French Line, Italian Line, the United States Line had gone out of business. Swedish America Line, Holland America Line along with Home Lines continued but only operating cruise ships. Liner service [...]
Help Save the S.S. United States – The Pride of a Nation – Time is running out for the great American Liner – It could be soon headed for the scrap heap.
Friday, April 2nd, 2010Great Video – save the SS UNITED STATES
Every ship has a soul – Franklin D. Roosevelt
The great steamships and liners – UNITED STATES, AMERICA, CONSTITUTION, BRAZIL, SANTA ROSA, LURLINE, PRESIDENT WILSON – were the pride of the nations that built them, an integral part of history, and a glorious symbol of an age passed. [...]
ss LURLINE – Matson Line’s Flagship – “The Lurline is Hawaii”!
Saturday, December 5th, 2009YOUTUBE – View of Matson Line’s SS LURLINE – A home movie of the SS Lurline on Boat Day in Honolulu. Taken in the early 1960s, this scene was a regular occurrence in Honolulu during the golden era of steamship travel (1927-1978). Each week, Matson’s grand white passenger ships arrived from California or the South [...]
Crystal Cruises carries on the tradition of the great luxury cruise ships such as the SS Rotterdam, RMS Caronia and MS Kungsholm.
Saturday, October 17th, 2009Crystal Symphony
Crystal Cruises carries on the tradition of the great luxury cruise ships such as the SS Rotterdam, RMS Caronia and MS Kungsholm.
Famous cruise ships of the last century : RMS CARONIA, MS KUNGSHOLM and the SS ROTTERDAM.
Crystal Cruises carries on the tradition of the great luxury cruise ships such as the SS Rotterdam, RMS [...]
Cruise History: Nostalgia will rule the waves on Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth. New ship will honor the first liner by the same name. Stepping on board Cunard’s latest cruise ship, the Queen Elizabeth, will be like walking onto the set of Poirot.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009Yesterday, Cunard Line revealed itinerary and design plans for its newest ocean liner, Queen Elizabeth, which is scheduled to enter service on 12 October 2010, giving one of the oldest names in shipping the strength of operating the youngest fleet in the industry.
Queen Elizabeth will be the third new ocean liner to be introduced by [...]
Cruise History – Remembering Katharine Hepburn aboard Holland America Line’s great trans-Atlantic liner SS NIEUW AMSTERDAM. A “queen” of Art Deco design and style.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009A wonderful Dutch film/video on the great liner.
Throughout the 1930s a remarkable period of growth was experienced by the merchant fleets of many nations. This growth occurred in spite of a depression that put a strangle-hold on the world-wide economy.
Our thanks to Reuben Goossens, 47 years in the Passenger Shipping/Cruise Industry, and one of [...]
Cruise Ship Reviews – Update – July 2008 – Ships that rival the past – Featuring Marjorie Merriweather Post’s fabulous SEA CLOUD!
Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Owner’s Suite aboard the 64-passenger four-masted barque Sea Cloud.
SEA CLOUD was built in 1931 as the Hussar by E.F. Hutton for his wealthy socialite wife, Marjorie Merriweather Post. Her personal suite is the museum-like 410-square-foot No. 1, with Louis XIV-style furniture and a white Carrera marble bathroom with gold-plated faucets. Suite No. 2 was [...]